Time lapse of an odd little monster. Presumably some kind of cercozoan from brackish water. #protistsonsky
February 6, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Time lapse of an odd little monster. Presumably some kind of cercozoan from brackish water. #protistsonsky
November 16, 2024 at 11:06 AM
#ProtistsOnSky
no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...
no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...
February 2, 2026 at 12:00 AM
#ProtistsOnSky
no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...
no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...
January 1, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Some little circus performers. #protistsonsky
September 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Some little circus performers. #protistsonsky
Another #notTHECover unfortunately.
But this gorgeous, Tron-like vibe, drawn by the amazing @munafomarzia.bsky.social for our recent #ExM work with @gautamdey.bsky.social & @centriolelab.bsky.social will still be printed out in the lab.
Read here: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
But this gorgeous, Tron-like vibe, drawn by the amazing @munafomarzia.bsky.social for our recent #ExM work with @gautamdey.bsky.social & @centriolelab.bsky.social will still be printed out in the lab.
Read here: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
December 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Expansion microscopy of a loricate choanoflagellate, generated by Mylan Ansel in our lab 🤩
(yes, the lorica expands. No, we don't understand how either)
(yes, the lorica expands. No, we don't understand how either)
March 20, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Is it an image of a new far-away galaxy? Or a slice through a single algal cell? #protistsonsky
January 19, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Is it an image of a new far-away galaxy? Or a slice through a single algal cell? #protistsonsky
Only the second radiolarian I’ve seen in my life, and this one is a chonks!
#marineplankton #protistsonsky 🦑
#marineplankton #protistsonsky 🦑
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Only the second radiolarian I’ve seen in my life, and this one is a chonks!
#marineplankton #protistsonsky 🦑
#marineplankton #protistsonsky 🦑
End-of-year preprint dump! A collaboration with @messorensen.bsky.social and German and Korean colleagues: "The phylogenetic context for the origin of a unique purple-green photosymbiosis "
doi.org/10.64898/202...
doi.org/10.64898/202...
December 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
DAY 484
SPECIES 484 - Colpidium colpoda
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Writech pen
C. colpoda is a single celled freshwater ciliate.
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 484 - Colpidium colpoda
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Writech pen
C. colpoda is a single celled freshwater ciliate.
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
October 2, 2026 at 7:32 AM
DAY 484
SPECIES 484 - Colpidium colpoda
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Writech pen
C. colpoda is a single celled freshwater ciliate.
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 484 - Colpidium colpoda
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Writech pen
C. colpoda is a single celled freshwater ciliate.
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
Proud to contribute the World’s Hottest Mitotic Spindle™️ to this incredible study
@fmikus.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social #ProtistsOnSky
@fmikus.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social #ProtistsOnSky
September 24, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Proud to contribute the World’s Hottest Mitotic Spindle™️ to this incredible study
@fmikus.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social #ProtistsOnSky
@fmikus.bsky.social @dudinlab.bsky.social #ProtistsOnSky
June 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Dictyocha fibula skeleton. Photo stack. 🦑 #plankton #protistsonsky
April 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Dictyocha fibula skeleton. Photo stack. 🦑 #plankton #protistsonsky
November 24, 2024 at 1:07 PM
DAY 483
SPECIES 483 - Pyrophacus steinii
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor
P. steinii (Stein's fire lentil) is a marine planktonic dinoflagellate.
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 483 - Pyrophacus steinii
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor
P. steinii (Stein's fire lentil) is a marine planktonic dinoflagellate.
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
October 1, 2026 at 7:49 AM
DAY 483
SPECIES 483 - Pyrophacus steinii
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor
P. steinii (Stein's fire lentil) is a marine planktonic dinoflagellate.
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 483 - Pyrophacus steinii
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor
P. steinii (Stein's fire lentil) is a marine planktonic dinoflagellate.
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
Exactly 10 yrs after defending my PhD with @taraoceans-science.bsky.social here we are with the lab celebrating 10 yrs of Tara enabled science at home in @embl.org surrounded by some of my scientific heroes and legends in the field. Scientific community is everything🌊
#EMBLPlanktonDiscoveries
#EMBLPlanktonDiscoveries
September 3, 2026 at 9:32 AM
August 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
In case some people have missed it, I'm re-posting a link to our paper on the Anaeramoeba-Desulfobacter symbiotic system. This is one of the papers from my lab that I'm most proud of...and a huge amount of the credit goes to @jonhultqvist.bsky.social !!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A unique symbiosome in an anaerobic single-celled eukaryote - Nature Communications
Symbiont-housing structures are well-studied in multicellular eukaryotes but rarely in unicellular protists. This study shows that low-oxygen-adapted Anaeramoebae have symbiosomes positioning sul...
www.nature.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Spatial proteomics reveals carboxysome adaptation and mitochondrial proteome in Paulinella chromatophora
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Spatial proteomics reveals carboxysome adaptation and mitochondrial proteome in Paulinella chromatophora
Using LOPIT-DC-based spatial proteomics, Cadena et al. map the sub-organellar protein
landscape of Paulinella chromatophora, a cercozoan with evolutionary-early-stage photosynthetic
organelles. They f...
www.cell.com
September 28, 2026 at 11:02 AM
We have a new branch in the family tree of animals: Atreyea- a previously unrecognized lineage among the closest unicell relatives of animals.
Led by @konsmitsi.bsky.social & @freejakoba.bsky.social together with a fantastic team of collaborators.
🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#protistsOnSky
Led by @konsmitsi.bsky.social & @freejakoba.bsky.social together with a fantastic team of collaborators.
🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#protistsOnSky
September 28, 2026 at 11:41 AM
We have a new branch in the family tree of animals: Atreyea- a previously unrecognized lineage among the closest unicell relatives of animals.
Led by @konsmitsi.bsky.social & @freejakoba.bsky.social together with a fantastic team of collaborators.
🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#protistsOnSky
Led by @konsmitsi.bsky.social & @freejakoba.bsky.social together with a fantastic team of collaborators.
🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#protistsOnSky
A couple of beautiful foraminifera from some recent samples. I just love the architecture of forams! 🦑 #protistsonsky
March 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
A couple of beautiful foraminifera from some recent samples. I just love the architecture of forams! 🦑 #protistsonsky
Its raining #Ichthyos ... Hallelujah!
#Lattice #LightSheet #Ichthyosporeans #Creolimax #Cellularization #ProtistsOnSky
#Lattice #LightSheet #Ichthyosporeans #Creolimax #Cellularization #ProtistsOnSky
September 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Its raining #Ichthyos ... Hallelujah!
#Lattice #LightSheet #Ichthyosporeans #Creolimax #Cellularization #ProtistsOnSky
#Lattice #LightSheet #Ichthyosporeans #Creolimax #Cellularization #ProtistsOnSky
Has it lost its mind? Can it see or is it blind? Don’t worry — we’re not judging anyone. We’re just amazed by the protagonist of this week’s #MidweekMicrobe.
Make some noise for a true Ironman: the euglenozoan Euglena mutabilis! 🤘 🦠
📷 Gerd Guenther
Make some noise for a true Ironman: the euglenozoan Euglena mutabilis! 🤘 🦠
📷 Gerd Guenther
July 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM